1. Introduction Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Rainer Becker MSP, MCP, MVP, dFPUG ISYS GmbH, W&B GmbH ™

2. Mission Visual FoxPro 5.0 is the high performance, object-oriented development environment for creating state-of-the-art desktop and client/server database applications

3. Key Themes l Powerful ActiveX Extensibility/Interoperability l Performance, Performance, Performance l Improved Connectivity Features l Enhanced Development Environment

4. ActiveX Extensibility l Automation n Great Client n Great Server n Custom Automation Servers n Remote Automation

5. ActiveX Extensibility l Great ActiveX Controls Host n Enhanced support for SubClassing ActiveX Controls (.OBJECT) n ISimpleFrame

6. Great Performance l Client/Server Performance n Aggregating SQL Deletes n Fetch Performance n Pre-compile SQL pass-thru stmts/views l OLE Performance n Type libraries for faster lookup of properties/methods n Form Load/Refresh with OLE bound/unbound controls

7. Connectivity l Offline Views n Create ‘snapshot’ of VFP or remote datasources and disconnect n Reconnect, batch updates and resolve conflicts l ODBC 3.0 support

8. Connectivity l VFP ODBC Driver n Fast Access to 2.x and 3.0 Tables and 3.0 Database Tables via ODBC API n Respects Rules, Triggers, Default Values n Thread Safe n Separate Threads for Query Processing and Results Fetching

9. Connectivity l Deploy Automation Servers on the Web n Remote automation n Foxisapi.dll n Bundled classes generate HTML n Sample app included

10. Enhanced Development Environment l Visual SourceSafe l IDE n Color coded editor n Debugger (Event Tracking, Call Stack) n Command Window

11. Enhanced Development Environment l Language n ParentClass n Collections (For Each) n HIDDEN n ASSERT/SET ASSERT n DROP TABLE/VIEW n SQLPREPARE() n SET NULLDISPLAY

12. Enhanced Development Environment l Multiuser DBC l Intelligent controls n default/configurable caption n default/configurable control type n can associate a class with a field l Language n = and ? not required n TopN and Ansi 92 Outer Join

13. What to Buy l Visual FoxPro Professional n includes re-distribution tools, licensing n must acquire VSS separately l Visual FoxPro Standard eliminated n low volume n Visual FoxPro 3.0 Std can upgrade to Visual FoxPro 5.0 Pro l Competitive/Version Upgrade, Academic Edition also available

14. Visual FoxPro: The Future l Next version (5.5) is being started now l Continued development as full member of Visual Tools family (VB, VC, VJ, etc) l Building components for other Microsoft tools and the Internet l More info at European Visual FoxPro DevCon, CeBIT, dFPUG

15. Fragen? dFPUG o6173-950903 CIS 100024,1364